Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

Henry Ward Beecher quotes

• In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Hold yourself to a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.”

  Henry Ward Beecher